It's Crystal here and today we are going to vamp up a picture frame with ribbon from Ribbons Unlimited inc. and some handmade paper flowers. For this projects I used Ombre Wired - Grass green 1 1/2" ribbon. This ribbon is so pretty and I love the dark to light ombre effect it has. The ribbon adds so much interest and pop to your project! Let's get started ...

First I am making my paper flowers. I stamp two pages of flowers , this stamp is set up as a background stamp so this makes it easy!(all products I used will be linked below at the bottom of this post)

This is what it looks like stamped out. I used pink cardstock and a rich razzleberry ink.

The die that cuts these out is set up the same as the stamp so its easy to line up and cut about a dozen different sized flowers at once! I cut two sheets worth of flowers to work with.

This is what it looks like when cut out...

Next I stack by flower size:

Then I use a dabber and more razzelberry ink to ink the edges of the flowers and the centers...

Next use a stylus and molding mat to shape the flowers. Lay face down and rub every petal from the tip of petal and pull to center, this curls the petals. Turn over face up and rub a circle in center this makes the flower take shape, then pinch each petal at the tips.

Layer up the flowers! I make different sizes because no flowers all open the same or are the same size!

Next I use 3D paint in walnut on flowers and moss green on leaves. I cut 8 and 7 inch strips of the ribbon and hot glue into a tailless bow shape:

I then layout the flowers to see placement. Once I determine that I have enough flowers for my 8"x10" frame, I cut a 24" piece of ribbon and start at corner and run down the bottom and up the side and twist and hot glue on the frame. Next I angel the tails of the ribbon then hot glue on my leaves and bows and flowers.

Here is the finished frame! What do you think? The sweet model is my 8 yr old daughter Zoe's school picture

Look how pretty this ribbon is! I am so going back to the Ribbons Unlimited Inc. store for more of this! The Ombre Ribbon comes in several colors I am sure you can find just the right color for your projects.